Post on 07-Apr-2018
JJOURNEYSOURNEYS 2014 C 2014 COMMONOMMON C COREOREFFIRSTIRST G GRADERADE
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
TEACHER MATERIALSTOOL IMAGE PURPOSE USE IN YOUR CLASSROOM
Teacher Editions1 for each of the 6 units
Offers easy organization and Instructional support for Whole-Group instruction, Small Group instruction, Extended Reading, Intervention and ELL support.
Big Books (11)
Invite children back to school and provide a modeled/shared reading to introduce each unit.Back to School: Jack’s Talent, Back to SchoolUnit 1: My Colors, My World; Chuck’s TruckUnit 2: A Cake All for Me; The SecretUnit 3: Vulture View; Beetle BopUnit 4: A Huge Hog is a Big PigUnit 5: Up, Down, and AroundUnit 6: Karate Hour
Focus Wall Posters
Provides a weekly classroom look at the literature and skills that provide the focus for each week.
Grab and Go Kits
All the resources needed for weekly instruction including leveled practice; organized in an easy to use lesson folder.
Literacy and Language Guide
Grade level teaching guide that provides reading mini-lessons and interactive Read-Aloud for core reading selections by Irene Fountas as well as Spelling and Vocabulary activities by
Shane Templeton.
STUDENT MATERIALS
Student Book
Delivers weekly grade level Common Core instruction through the anchor text, analyze the test boxes, turn and talk activities, paired text with activities for text to text comparison as well as a grammar and writing lesson.
Trade Books
Three books with complete lesson plans in the Teacher’s Edition to use with Units 2, 4, and 6.
Reader’s Notebook
Provides opportunities for responding to the Anchor Text and citing text evidence. Also provides practice for phonics, vocabulary strategies, spelling, grammar, and writing.
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION
Instructional Card Kit
Includes:• High Frequency Word
Cards (K-2)• Vocabulary in Context
Cards (K-3)• Retelling Cards (K-2)• Letter, Word, Picture
Cards (K-3)• Punctuation Cards (K-2)
Sound Spelling CardsIncluded in Alphafriends
for Kindergarten
Supports the connection between the spoken sound and the spelling of that sound.
ELL Language Support Cards
Helps pre-teach critical skills and supports a variety of ELL vocabulary needs.
Common Core Writing Handbook TE
Includes writing models along with interactive practice and a handbook section that is a tool students can refer to when engaged in writing.
Family Connection Book
Includes a weekly menu of interactive games, activities, and reading passages. These activities support classroom reading vocabulary and skills in ways that enable parents to work along with their child.
ASSESSMENTS
Emerging Literacy Survey
Diagnostic instrument of phonemic awareness, basic reading skills, plus passages for reading in context.
Diagnostic Assessment
Individually administered tests which provide a diagnostic instrument of basic reading skills, plus passages for reading in context; results provide targeted suggestions to inform instruction for grouping.
Weekly Assessments
Weekly assessment of Target Vocabulary, Vocabulary Strategies, Comprehension, Decoding, and Grammar.
Unit and Benchmark Assessments
Help prepare students for Common Core Assessment—reading complex text and performance tasks.
Progress Monitoring Assessment
Supports Tier II Intervention instruction centered around the Write-In Readers. Given bi-weekly.
Cold Reads
Leveled passages to build comprehension of increasingly complex texts; includes complex questions requiring text evidence; aligned to Common Core State Standards; opportunities to develop and monitor fluency.
Test Power(Student Edition)
Additional coverage and support for standardized tests & standards.
SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION
Vocabulary Readers(6 copies of each of the
30 titles)
Provides practice and application of weekly target vocabulary presented in core student book. All are nonfiction, have been leveled by Irene Fountas, and have a leveled instructional guide.
Leveled Readers(on, above, below & ELL
level)(6 copies of each. 30
titles per level; includes 8-page
Teaching guide.)
Provides leveled Guided Reading instruction and practice for the comprehension skills and vocabulary taught in the main selection. They are leveled A-Z by Irene Fountas.
Decodable Readers(6 Unit Titles, 6 copies)
Provides targeted practice for the week’s phonics skill.
Literacy Centers Flip-chart style center activity stations: Think and Write, Comprehension and Fluency, and Word Study.
INTERVENTIONStrategic Intervention Support for Tier II.
Write-In Readers
Consumable work texts that pre-teach and reteach weekly core skills and vocabulary to help Tier II students successfully access classroom instruction. “Be a Reading Detective” returns students to the anchor text in the core student book to read closely for important textual clues.
Reading Tool Kit
Provides targeted skill lessons for Intensive Intervention (Tier III) for primary grade students.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
Reading Assessment App
Provides Weekly Common Core reading practice and assessment with complex texts tied to weekly major ELA skills and topics.
Leveled Reader App
Enables students from grades K through 6 to access and read digital fiction and non-fiction readers that are appropriate to their grade and guided reading level.